Keynote Speakers
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics, UW-Madison
Bad Algorithms & The Ethical Matrix
Cathy O'Neil
Data Scientist & Founder, ORCAA
Business Track
How Automated AI is Reshaping Analytics
Rajiv Shah, Ph.D.
Data Scientist, DataRobot
Data Rich to Data Driven: The AmFam Story
Susannah Barnes
Information Standards Governance and Quality Specialist, American Family Insurance
Robotic Process Automation in the Real World — Designing for Success
Creamheld Pepito
Director of Engineering, Northwestern Mutual
ElectionVR: An Experiment in Visualizing Election Data in Virtual Reality
Steve Brudz
Application Architect, Earthling Interactive
Lingua Frankness: Effective Communication Between Analytics and Strategy
Mary Willcock
Data Scientist, Kohl's Dept. Stores
Technology Alone is Not Enough
Brent Leland
Founder, High G
Data Engineering Track
Data-driven Agriculture to Feed the World
Yalda Zare, Ph.D.
Senior Data Scientist, Benson Hill Biosystems
Scaling with Healthcare: Predictions Meeting Clinicians Where They Are
Drew McCombs
Software Development Lead, Epic
Scaling Dynamic SQL Workloads in the Cloud with Presto
Harsha Gopu
Solutions Architect, Qubole
Predicting and Interpreting Respiratory Risk from Inhaler Sensors and Environmental Data
Mike Lohmeier
Director of Platform Engineering, Propeller Health
Parallel Computing in Python with Dask
James Bourbeau, Ph.D.
Software Engineer, Quansight, LLC
A Self-Healing SolrCloud Built Using Cloud Design Patterns
James Strassburg
Chief Software Architect, Direct Supply
Data Science Track
Some New Thoughts on Anomaly Detection
Rachel Traylor, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Marquette University
How to be an Agile Data Scientist
Pierce Edmiston, Ph.D.
Data Scientist, 8th Light
Integration of Multiple Data Sets for Disease Forecasting in Wildlife Ecology
Alison C. Ketz, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Why Model Fit Statistics Conceal Important Relationships, and What You Can Do About It
Brian Barkley, Ph.D.
Data Scientist, Kohl's Dept. Stores
Non-Probabilistic Recruitment Polling
Parker Quinn
Data Scientist, Polco
Statistical Learning Tools for Catastrophic Pediatric Illness Decision Making
Natasha Sahr, Ph.D.
Assistant Member, Faculty, St. Jude Research Hospital